Hello everyone.

I have questions regarding comparing frequencies between groups. I will be happy if someone can help.

So I will describe first briefly my research design:

- I am analysing online shaming that has per se 10 types (10 types of shaming).

- I am analyzing 6 cases (multiple case studies) of shaming events.

- I am using thematic analysis.

- In the data (comments from social media) I am analyzing how many types of shaming occur in each data.

- In each case, I have obtained by thematic analyses how many times each type of shaming occurs (per se type 1 occurs 50x times in case 1, type 2 occurs 124 times in case 1 - type 1 occurs 12 times in case 2, type 2 occurs 32 times in case 2 etc).

- The 6 cases will be grouped into three groups by the theory, so I will have three groups (in one group there will be 2 cases, in the second group there will be another 2 cases and in the third group there will also be the other 2 cases).

- I want to compare the frequencies of types of shaming between these three groups.

So how do we compare frequencies/proportions between groups?

I must notion that the number of all codings was different in individual cases. For example in example 1 the number of encodings was - say 1,200, in example 2 the number of encodings was - say 800. A number of codings = number of all codings related to the types of shaming. So I can't just count these frequencies, but I have to weigh them. Does anyone have an idea how to compare the frequencies between different cases where the numerus are different?

Thank you so much for your help.

SHORT QUESTION: How to compare frequencies between groups where in each group there are different cases and each case has a different number of total codings (thematic analysis)?